--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Oct 6, 2007, at 7:37 PM, Rick Archer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Just for the record, Henry Louie was Joni's manager (or was
it
> > > > recording engineer, Turq?). Henry and his wife Nadine were
> > > > close to MMY in the early days. I once heard a story that
> > > > some starry-eyed fan got close enough to Joni (who learned
TM
> > > > at some point) to say "Jai Guru Dev" and that Joni's
response
> > > > was "Fuck you."
> > >
> > > Not surprising since one of her friends, Alan Ginsberg had
> > > discovered and exposed the Maharishi's phoniness many years ago
> > > (and IIRC correctly, Ginsberg published it in a newspaper).
> > >
> > I heard Alan Ginsberg say just the opposite, that Maharishi is
> > supremely enlightened and nothing phony about him at all, that
the
> > phoniness others see in Maharishi is just a reflection of their
own
> > phoniness. Oh wait, you cite your references first...:-)
>
> No problem:
>
> http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg6n6657_59c8ftjw
>
> As you'll see, he sure discovered and exposed
> MMY's phoniness, all right.
>
> <guffaw>
>
Now that I've read Alan Ginsberg's breathless expose of Maharishi's
phoniness, I'll come clean: Vaj and I both made up what we said out
of thin air, and I do mean thin... Interesting that Vaj takes the
word of someone who before trying Maharishi's meditation just writes
it off. Synergy? Nah.:-)
